Three Observers

July 12, 2008

By Emma W., New York, NY

Three Observers

I do not mind To sit here and sketch Lovers out the window She is leaning on his Right hand while Aphorisms from finishing school Come and go like fireflies It is hot in summer yet I keep the window closed.

I do not know much I know I am a column Freestanding on some Greek peninsula While the water’s rising And she doesn’t notice She just stays here leaning I do not know much I know I am a blue man And in Autumn When I stood and looked Out across the river I was not alone.

I was Persephone In summer dancing Carefree as a watermelon. But it is winter and I must descend again For he waits, Patient as stone But I cannot complain Though it is January For hell is warm.

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